Those interested in the Quantum of Solace away mission should meet outside of the Student Center at 7:50pm. We’ll be heading to the RAVE theater for the 8:30pm showing.
See you there.
Attendance: 16
Meeting Start: 10:04:02
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Sign the log book!
Movie: 007 away mission is being planned. The bad movie is The Wizard of Speed and Time.
Office Resource: Still there.
Trivia: Xeen still has trivia by answering the name of the arch-lich who created the Tomb of Horrors.
Party: Needs money.
Discussion Group: Mike is locked in a soundbooth. New topic: Good ways to become immortal.
No Report: Xeen used a Gutenberg machine to make huge explosion.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Not here. Again.
Constable: Survived Week of Death: 3 tests, 2 papers, head cold, AND Obama won. Racked up lots of kills in Fallout 3.
Com Officer: Has been visiting prisons.
Grand Nagus: Has been watching Fantastic Four. Also emailed a guy who worked on music for ComicZone to ask about the best lamb in San Francisco.
First Officer: Nothing.
Captain: Told by his teacher that he would fit in well at prison.
Old Business: None.
New Business: None.
Other Organizations
Anime: Punishment by Lucky Star.
MCS: Friday at 5. Starcraft is now understood?
Order of Xeen: None.
Theater: Go see play.
Other: Jon needs voice talent for podcasting.
LAN will meet at 8pm, hopefully in the right room.
Meeting End: 10:32 and a half hour after I found the hammer.
Quotes
Adam: I didn’t see Forrest.
Jon: Is your gaydar broken?
?: Forrest, I wonder what you’d see when you looked at Tim Gunn.
?: Negative space.
Forrest: Sparkly negative space.
Jon: If I can cockblock Psi Phi with Reboot the Reboot, I’m happy.
Erik: It was more like blue balls.
Erik: The first lawyer that makes a statement… the judge will say, “Why so serious?” and run out laughing.
Jack: If we had a good general, we would have won the first time around.
Erik: We still would have won with a drunk general and an army of dinosaurs.
Erik: Actually, I cut [the office] off from the building a bit ago.
Forrest: Ow, it hurts. Give me money.
Erik: So… since I haven’t given money and I just paralyzed you, here’s $2. Hey! He can move his arms!
Jon: Lawsuit averted.
Jack: No one will mess with Kelty. He already has a nickname. He’s on a killing spree.
Erik: I get a black screen.
Adam: Is it plugged in?
Erik: Yes.
Adam: Both ends?
Erik: Yes. It’s a laptop.
Erik: I could do it.
Adam: Hey! He said talent.
- The captain may wish to cover his ears for this one. Red Eagle Entertainment is readying not only big-screen adaptations of the Wheel of Time novels, but video games as well. They’ve just launched Red Eagle Games, a video game publishing company that will oversee the release of video games to coincide with the launch of the movies.
- Reboot ze reboot! NBC’s Knight Rider is getting a makeover. “It’s a reboot,” “Knight” executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson said. “We’re moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen.”
- Engineers at the University of Washington have developed contact lenses with integrated circuitry. This achievement could lay the groundwork for the “bionic eye,” and another element of science fiction will join the ranks of simply science.
- The new Ghostbusters video game will be backed by Atari. This is not a repeat from 1984. With much of the original cast signed on for voice acting, developed by Sierra and then bounced through Activision Blizzard, the project has found its new home with Atari now owned by Infogrames, it should be published in 2009.
- The Army wants to use Eve Online and WoW to test AI sending in virtual soldiers to see if human players can tell the difference. Finally. after billions of dollars in funding, the US military has caught up with the Chinese gold farmers. The army is also trying to use hands free tech to have soldiers in constant, silent communication with each other, with the ability to silently activate and control machines just by thinking about it.
- A new game is in development by veteran game designer Richard Berg that will feature Godzilla, along with some of his friends. Confirmed monsters include Rodan, King Ghidorah and Gigan. There will likely be miniatures representing the monsters, but no word on the scale or design of the pieces. A 2009 release is anticipated and more details and development can be found at boardgamegeek.com
- The mayor of the Turkish town of Batman is suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. blaming the highly successful movie franchise of the same name for the town’s high rate of murders and teen suicides. Legal experts have this to say about the case “bwahahahahaha.”
- Will Smith’s son Jaden is a near lock for the Karate Kid remake. No word yet if Ralph Macchio’s work on Ugly Betty and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead will allow for a cameo or not.
- Warner Bros. is in talks with Sam Worthington to play the role of Perseus in the Louis Leterrier-directed “Clash of the Titans.” Leterrier also directed Unleashed and The Incredible Hulk reboot.
- Ridley Scott has officially moved onto Park Avenue. Scott will direct Universal Pictures’ bigscreen version of Hasbro’s Monopoly board game from a script by Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride).
- “Professor Cline’s Dinosaur Kingdom,” imagines a lost chapter from Civil War history. It supposes that in 1863, a group of paleontologists inadvertently stumbled upon a valley of live dinosaurs. The discovery comes to the attention of the Union Army, who decide to capture them and unleash them on the Confederate Army. Where can you find this story? A new movie? No. A new web series? No. A book? No…Dinosaur Kingdom is a detailed fiberglass roadside attraction in Natural Bridge, Virginia, just across the street from Foamhenge.
- Grant Morrison, writer of Batman RIP and Final Crisis storylines, may be tapped to write the Flash movie.
- Elder God for two? German game designer Reiner Knizia has published a new game, Cthulhu Rising, a mathematics based puzzle game published by Twilight Creations, who also published Zombies!!!
- Social Conservative group, “Focus on the Family,” has begun spreading a short story called, “Letters from Obama’s America,” written y a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama regime. Pronography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private ownership of guns has been outlawed. Homosexuality will be legalized as a constitutional right, the Boy Scouts will disband when they refuse to let homosexual tent masters sleep in young boy’s tents, the far Left will control the Supreme Court, a few U.S. cities will be attacked by terrorists and Israel will be nuked, Russia will invade Europe, and the Bible will be classified as hate speech. “Letter” is more frightening in that Conservatives are turning to sci-fi as a weapon. Expect to see a lot of right-wing sci-fi protest literature in the future as the right remakes itself.
- Despite internet rumors, Megan Fox will not be playing Wonder Woman.
- CNN has holograms, kind of. Using 35 HD cameras in a special ring, they beamed images of the correspondents to the studio and choreographed the movements of the studio cameras with images from the rig. The anchors then talked to a hidden monitor, giving the appearance of a 3d image in the studio.
- It’s dead, it’s not dead, it’s dead, it’s not dead. Preacher the movie has risen from the grave again. Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to the 90′s series, for an adaptation to be directed by Sam Mendes.
- Researchers said Tuesday that it is possible to protect spacecrafts with a portable system known as a magnetosphere that could keep space environmental threats, such as solar wind and flares, away.
- Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael Straczynski, is writing an update of the classic Forbidden Planet for WB.
- The current leader for the next Dr Who may be Billie Piper, however Steven Moffat says he should be 40-plus and weird looking.
- Heroes execs Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been fired, because of Peacock exec’s frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budge overruns this season, going well beyond its already sizable 4million/seg pricetag.
- Michael Crichton died at 66 of cancer.
Attendance: 14
Meeting Start: 10:04 and there’s not nearly enough people here.
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: We need bounty hunters to round up members. Will be wearing black sheets?
Movie: The bad movie is Mongrel.
Office Resource: The office is still there.
Trivia: What is best in life, according to Conan. Xeen wins: Crush enemies, see them driven before you and hear lamentations of women.
Party: Gone.
Discussion Group: Anti-Mike’s not here. Going to Bacci’s. If you were an ascended being, what would you do?
No Report: Taia has been assigned to watch Teeth.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Fail.
Constable: Fail.
Com Officer: Has been bonding with little sister, who thinks kissing is icky.
Grand Nagus: Needs more RAM for Fallout 3.
First Officer: Fail.
Captain: Teacher has chlamydia… in her notes.
Old Business: Robot-monster-zombie-alien-fest is on the way.
New Business: Jon and Anti-Mike need voice acting talent.
Other Organizations
Anime: Selecting evening show.
MCS: The items that were left behind were put in the office.
Theater: New production next week.
Meeting End: 10:32
Quotes
Jon: Or revisionist history… everyone was here.
Forrest: I love revisionist history!
Jack: Zombies have jazz hands.
Adam: That didn’t sound all bad. We got rid of Europe…
Jon: But now they’re all Russian.
Monica: Is this an official movie or porn?
Jack: Both! Transformers, rated PG. Come watch, kids!
Forrest: I don’t think he’s going to turn female.
Forrest: Now that Jon’s made it more awkward…
Collier: Laminate your women.
Jack: Our women must be shiny and waterproof.
Forrest: [in a Russian accent] We support Obama because he will turn it red and not in the stupid Republican way.